On January 7, 2001, the artist Byron Kim made a painting of a clear blue sky. The blue is, more precisely, a deep, powdery periwinkle—a twinge darker at the lower left corner of the composition ...

A plaque beside the mural dedicates it to Blue Sky’s cousin Eugene Elison Fetner, whose 1941 Dodge is depicted in the painting. “Five Points in 1948,” a mural by Columbia artist Blue Sky, on ...